OGC announces next Location Powers Summit, focused on Data Science

4th September 2019: The Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to its next Location Powers
summit, which will focus on Data Science. The event will be held at
Google’s Crittenden Campus in Mountain View, CA on the 13th &
14th of November, 2019.

At this summit, you will be part of a discussion
on how the core methods of data science - the established
fundamentals as well as the latest trends - can provide valuable
insights when used with geospatial information. The workshop will
conclude with recommendations on how to advance geospatial data
science in theory and practice.

The explosive availability of data about nearly
every aspect of human activity, coupled with rapid advances in
computing technologies, is transforming data science. Data Science
is currently in a Golden Age. The Golden Age is a mythological era
in which peace and harmony prevailed, and people did not have to
work to feed themselves for the earth provided food in abundance.
Currently we are in an age of data abundance and highly available
computing resources - a golden age of data
science.

The shift from a data-scarce to a data-rich
environment comes from mobile devices, remote sensing,
and...